Order for survey Burke Co., N. C. No. 1321 for Thos, Mackey, 640a. lying in the Co. aforesd. On the Cherokee forks of Hunting Creek bounding on his former entry and including some part of his own improvements and including
both sides of the Creek up to the Cerokee fork. Enterest 30 Dec 1778. Dated 10 Mch 1780. C, McDowell, surveyor's Certf. Of land for Thos. Mackey lying above described & bounded by Ezekiel Stringfield his own survey, Mordecai Morgan, Jesse Walker and the South Fork Mountain. Sg. Per order of Danl. Vance C. Surv. by me Joe Greer, D. Surv. Ezekiel Stringfield & Thos. Bradley, Chain Bearers. (N. B. Name written in plat Thomas Mackey 610a.).

About 1785 Thomas Mackie moved to Wilkes County, Georgia, and was living in what was created into Elbert County, Ga., in 1790. He was a member of the Concord Presbyterian Church, now in Madison County, Ga., at the time of his death in 1796, "a very old man." He is said to be buried in Hampton Cemetery, near Danielsville, Georgia. Thomas Mackie was a soldier of the Revolution in N. C. as shown by Bk. ETO G-4-6 Item 51: "Thomas Mackey/Mackie 53 L's allowed by Comm. of Claims Nov 1776." Knights Georgia Roster of the Revolution: "Thomas Mackie, soldier N. C. Troops-361."

"Elbert Co. Ga. 30 Dec 1802: Personally came John Mackie, Exor. of Thomas Mackie, dec'd. before me and being duly sworn deposeth that sometime to the best of his recollection in the year 1788/89, were stolen from the sd. Thomas Mackie, 5 head of horses which he believes were worth $300 and he has reason to believe that they were either taken by the Creek Indians or carried to the Creek Nation by the Cherokees, and this deponent further saith that his reason for believing it was the Creek Indians is that at the rock Landing Treaty he found one of his horses that were in possession of a Creek Indian which was stolen from him in and about the same time. John Mackie/S/

"5 Sept 1821: (Present) Wm. D. Martin, Levi Lowery, Joseph Hampton: 'Saml. Mackie came into open court and makes oatch that in the years 1788/89, his brother Wm. Mackie as well as himself, lived with their father, Thomas Mackie in Wilkes now Madison Co. Ga.'"

Witnessed a deed, along with Samuel Mackie and John Crosby, in which Thomas Hemphill purchased 300 acres on the South Fork of Bluestone Creek from David and Mary (Hemphill) McClesky.
"(Deed Book A, page 55, Elbert Co., Ga.)."

"MACKIE, THOMAS - Page 19 - To wife Rosannah one third of the plantation on which I live for life, the other two thirds to sons John and William during her life, at her death all to fall to son John. To wife Rosannah a slave Hager, at her death to dau. Martha Fleming. To sons Samuel and William slaves Cat, Isaac, Joan, and Jan. To daus. Rachel Strickland, Mary Hemphill, and Rosannah Temple $5.00 each. My clothes to Thos. Becxcy. John and Samuel Mackie, Excrs. Signed July 23, 1796. Rec. April 2, 1797. Samuel Hopkins, Elijah Hopkins, Test."
"The will of Thomas Mackie is recorded in Elbert Co. Ga. (B-19), and was sg 22 July 1796 pr 2 Apr 1797, naming his w. Rosannah and chn (listed in accordance with will):
2. John Mackie, Exor. (Killed 1802),
3. Wm. Mackie,
4. Samuel Mackie, Exor.
5. Marthew Fleamin sic & her chn. Janit & Rosanah,
6. Rachel Strickland
7. Rosannah Templeton,
8. Mary Hemphill
To: Thomas Brexey "My Cloase" (s.i.l.)
To: Janet Brexey "1 Cow" (Grd-dtr)

[S140] Lyman Copeland Draper, Anthonay Allaire, Isaac Shelby, King's Mountain and Its Heroes: History of the Battle of King's Mountain (P G Thompson 1881), ISBN 0806300973., 349 (Reliability: 2).
"The wounded Americans, who had been hid away in the mountains when the troops marched so hurriedly from Bickerstaff's, were soon brought forward ; and many of them were left in Burke County, eight or ten miles above Burke Court House, where Doctor Dobson,of that neighborhood, had eighteen of them under his care at one time ; four of whom were Wilkes and Surry County officers billeted at a Mr. Mackey's."